Senior Visual Effects Artist

3 weeks ago

Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom Sega Europe Full time

Job Title: Senior Visual Effects Artist

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Visual Effects Artist to join our team at Sega Europe. As a key member of our VFX team, you will be responsible for creating world-class visual effects for our games.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work with Art directors to define the art style for VFX.
  • Create high-quality VFX content for previsualisation, benchmarks, and visual development.
  • Lead the VFX team and develop the team with training, mentorship, and career development.
  • Work with the production team to plan the VFX content and deliver VFX work on schedule and to the highest standards.
  • Set art standards in conjunction with the technical teams to ensure the VFX are performant and consistent across all projects.
  • Research emerging visual effects technology and plan the roadmap of technical improvements to keep competitive with industry trends.
  • Work closely with design, animation, and other teams to ensure VFX is fully integrated in the game experience.
  • Collaborate across the franchise to seek out opportunities to enrich the game further with VFX of various types and lighting effects.
  • Work with external contractors to provide required resources for the products we are creating.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years' experience of working in game development. 3+ shipped titles.
  • Expert knowledge of one or more 3D packages.
  • Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Substance, and other 2D editing or texturing software.
  • Ability to create animated textures, simulations, and associated related 2D content.
  • Ability to create meshes, shaders, and materials, and associated content for mesh-based VFX.
  • Basic animation understanding and skills to implement this in VFX for timing.
  • Understanding of colour theory, visual design, and composition.
  • Proactive, results-oriented, practical approach, with excellent time management skills.
  • Understanding of VFX performance and experience planning and optimising for various platforms.
  • Strong awareness of industry technology trends.
  • Love of games.
  • Unreal/Unity or other commercial engine experience.
  • Experience working with contractors or outsourcers.
  • Experience developing FX for strategy games.
  • Technical understanding of rendering, lighting, and physics.
  • Experience profiling and optimising games.
  • Art or games degree.
  • Knowledge of Houdini, Embergen, Pflow, thinking particles, tyflow, fumefx, phoenixfd, or any offline rendering FX-related tools or workflows.
  • Skills in HLSL or other shader languages.

About Sega Europe:

Sega Europe crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.

We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.

Benefits:

  • Work from anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs).
  • Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no-notice holidays.
  • Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents.
  • Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover, and free healthcare screening.
  • Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all Bank holidays.
  • Join our Diversity and Inclusion Network – an employee-led group.
  • Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site.
  • Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling.
  • Community activities including parties, football, and more.

Equal Opportunities Employer:

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

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